How To Verify and Submit Sitemap For Tumblr Blog ?

Submiting sitemaps and verification of ownership in google and bing webmasters are really important part in terms of seo (search engine optimization) for tumblr blog, and it is also the basic step to get your site indexed in serach engines like google and bing, in this tutorial we’ll learn how to verify and submit sitemap for tumblr blog, just follow below steps to get it done!

Verify And Submit Tumblr Blog In Webmasters Tools For Search Engine Indexing !

Step 1 : First, you’ll need to sign up for Google Webmaster Tools – Here!

Step 2 : Now you’ll need to add your site to your new Webmaster Tools account, the “www” is not necessary if you are using a custom domain with your Tumblr account & If you are using a standard Tumblr address (yourblog.tumblr.com) just enter the address as normal.

Click “Add a site” and then type your address in the text box that appears.

Step 3 : Now you need to verify ownership of your domain to get everything working correctly. I usually choose the “meta tag” verification method. It’s quick and easy.

Choose / Select the “Add meta Tag” option and copy the code that appears in the blue box. We’re going to paste this into the HTML code of your tumblr blog. I know it sounds a little hard, but it’s easy!

Step 4 : In this step, we’re going to add the Google Webmaster Tools verification code to your Tumblr blog.

• Log into your Tumblr account and click on the “Customize” icon.
• Click on “Theme” and then “Enable custom HTML” or Edit HTML Option.
• Look for this line where you see “</head>” and paste the Google Webmaster Tools verification code above it.

• Now Click <<“Update Preview Then Click Save”>> thats it you have just finished the most complicated part of this process!

All you need to do now is go back to Google Webmaster Tools and click “Verify” button.

Step 5 : In this Part We’ll Submit Sitemap!

Open webmasters dashboard, click crawl “button” then sitemaps then click add/test sitemap button, after that Type “sitemap1.xml” in the text box that Appears & click submit sitemap button. Thats it! 😀

 

This guide can also be applied for bing webmasters tools to verify and submit your tumblr blog to bing 😀